The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-22
PERSONAL.

EDWIN BooTH keeps up his habit of smoking
from one to two dozen cigars per day.
REPORT has it that the daughter of Senator
| Mitchell. OF Oregon, is presently 10 be married
| to Mr.. II. Taylor, OF Chicago
TIE latest accession to knightship in the
| Legion Of Honor is Nine. Boucicaut. proprietor
| of the famous Bon Marche shop in Paris
J. L. NJ. CURRY. United States Minister to
| Spain, and Mrs. Curry sailed for the formers
post Of duty on the steamer Elder on Saturday
| Mr.. GLADSTONE has lately expressed himself
in favor Of some plan by which members of
| Parliament will receive salaries for their ser
| vices.
No ONE has been elected to succeed DR.. Bar
! bour as College Pastor at Yale. and President
Dwight will have charge of the religious services
! for the year.
RUFUS MAGEE. the American Minister to
! Sweden. is accused Of accepting commissions
| from Stockholm merchants, and of forgetting to
pay his official bills.
| Gov FORAKER. of Ohio has turned his cam
| paign oratory away from the subject of the
| snub he did not receive, and is devoting his
| attention to theories of taxation.
| Mas. JOIN JACOB AsToR pays her chief cook
| 81 600 per annum, and then has to content her
| self with eating the plalnest kind of fare She
| is troubled with dyspepsia in its worst form.
MILE. JULIA BENNATI, of the Maurice Grau
| Opera Company, has face startlingly like that
of the late Marie Aimee, and can sing better
but she lacks the chic that made Aimee such a
favorite.
Gov BOWEL. of Maine. looks like farm
hand and drives bargain like Shylock of old
He made fortune out of marble quaIrying
and is devoting his time nowadays to keeping
the fortune
THE WIFE OF Robert p Porter is said to have
made $1,000 in the last twelve months writing
for the papers, without letting single one OF
her three handsome children CRY for maternal
affection" Her earnings last week were Sl55.
THE young English pianiss, Pauline Ellice,
now II years of age. will be heard in Berlin
Her programme has such works as the C minor
Concerto by Beethoven, the major Polonaise
by Weber-Liszt, and several numbers of Bach's
GEORGE FoRDHAM, the Jockey, who lately
died, is Of the popular heroes of the hour in
England. He was most honorable man. and
especially refused to take advantage where
the start was not equal. He rarely made any
bets.
NJ. LOUIS BRANDus, who recently committed
suicide in Paris was the friend and executor of
Meyerbeer, and owned the copyright Of all his
works. He also owned many of Offenbachs
and Halevy's works, and Rossini's William
Tell
Mrs. ARMSTRONG GIBBs. of Melbourne. Aus
tralia, who has made a sensation at Brussels as
prima DONNA sings under the stage name of
Meiya. She has a wonderful soprano voice of
great compass, and many critics say il is equal
10 PATHS.
NINE. kATKoFF is engaged in collecting all the
newspaper articles which were written nv her
husband himself. with view to publishing a
complete edition Of them 1t is estimated that
the collection will occupy eight volumes, com
pi1sing 5000 pages.
LIEUT.. FoULEE who as diplomat and lands
man during his services naval attache of the
United States Legation In Corea, was for part
of the time acting Minister, is going TO marry a
japanese girl at Nagasaki, who helped him to
study her language
RICHARD GUAM, who died a few weeks ago
and left his fortune to University College Lon
don, was a celebrated surgeon, and author of
"Quans Anatomy" but was not the renowned
author of "Quain's Dictionary of Medicine"
The latter still lives and prospers
Col. CHARLES MARSHAL, formerly chief of
staff TO Gov Lee, is credited with giving this
reason for his support of the Maryland Republi-
can ticket: II am content to be governed BY
what they call tried Democrats, but am not
willing to be governed by tried and convicted
Democrats
IT was Randolph Tucker who asked Garfield
as the General was leaving the cloak room Of
the House to go 20 the Chicago Convention in
1881. who the Republicans were going to nomi-
nate. ITS as likely 10 be me as ANYBODY
Ran, replied Garfield, throwing mis- arm around
fuckers neck, for they were great friends. Mr.
Tgcter thinks now that Garfield spoke 10y the
card